Assistant professor of Regional + City Planning C. Aujean Lee (pictured, left) & RCPL affiliate faculty member Laura Harjo (pictured, right; associate professor of Native American Studies) are guest editors for an upcoming special issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association entitled “Anti-Racist Futures: Disrupting Racist Planning Practices in Workplaces, Institutions, and Communities.”
The special issue editorial team also includes April Jackson (FSU), Anaid Yerena (University of Washington, Tacoma), Ivis Garcia (University of Utah), Benjamin Chrisinger (Oxford University), and Stacy Harwood (University of Utah).
Excerpted from the call for papers:
We are in a critical moment in history as demonstrated by the Spring/Summer 2020 nationwide anti-racism protests, after George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks died in police custody. With increased public consciousness amidst racial reckoning, it is imperative to document any shifts in state, regional, or municipal planning and higher education that are occurring to provide practitioners with concrete strategies on ways to implement anti-racist and decolonial planning practices. The field of planning has the opportunity to be proactive in valuing diversity and centering racial justice now more than ever. This Special Issue seeks to push planning scholars, educators, and practitioners to think critically about the field of planning, contend
with the racist origins of the field and profession, disrupt racial inequality, and dismantle current racist, colonial, and discriminatory planning policies and practices to redress harm experienced by communities of color and move towards anti-racist futures.
Learn more and submit
The call for papers is available here, and abstracts of 1,000 words are due to guest editors, April Jackson, PhD (ajackson5@fsu.edu) and Anaid Yerena (yerena@uw.edu) by June 1, 2021.
Telesis, a journal produced by students in the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, has earned first place in the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals for its seventh volume, “Unfold.” This marks the fourth time the publication has earned recognition for excellence in student architectural journalism. It shares the honor with student journals from Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Cal Poly.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
